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(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1. G. POLL. SMOOTHING IRON.

No. 595,075. Patented Dec. 7, 1897.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

G. POLL. SMOOTHING IRON.

180.5%,075. Patented Dec. 7, 1897. K)

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GEORGE POLL, OF MELBOURNE, VICTORIA.

SMOOTHlNG-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,075, dated December 7, 1897.

Application filed July 8, 1397. Serial No. 643,894. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE POLL, miner, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and a resident of No. 56 Oxford Chambers, Bourke Street, Melbourne, in the British Colony of Victoria, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Smoothing-Iron Heated by Gas Gen erated from Kerosene or other Oil or Spirit, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved smoothing-iron which is heated by the combustion of gas generated from kerosene or other oil or spirit, the conversion of the oil being brought about byits being passed through a heated tubular coil arranged within the iron.

I will now describe the invention, aided by a reference to the accompanying sheets of drawings, which illustrate it, in-

Figure 1 by a part side View and a part longitudinal section, Fig. 2 showing a back view of the iron and with the oil-reservoir in section; Fig. 3, a front view of the burner, coils, and cup; Fig. 4, an enlarged sectional view of the burner, and Fig. 5 a cross-section of the handle.

The iron proper is in the form of a hollow box A, made of the usual shape in plan and provided with a chimney A at its fore end, while B is its handle and which is coated with non-conducting material. At the back end of the iron is an oil-supply reservoir 0, having attached to its lower end and leading from it into the box a copper tube or pipe 0, terminating in a double coil C said coil being preferably double, with the inner coil within an outer coil and having the end of the outer tube attached at (Z to a Bunsen burner D; also, the pipe O has a branch C leading from it at c to and entering the upper part of the oilreservoir O. Around the plain part of the burner is a cup D in which to hold and burn methylated spirit, by the burning of which the coil is heated in the first instance prior to its being placed in the iron in order to heat the coils to generate the oil-gas. The orifice d in the throat of burner is very small and in the tube or chamber leading to it is a very fine wire-gauze hood (1 the purpose of which is to prevent the choking of the burner.

Within the aforesaid oil-reservoir C is a rod E, having at its lower part a valve E, and said rod or spindle passes out through a screwed gland and stuffing-box E at top of reservoir in order to receive a key E, by which the flow of oil may be regulated by the position in which the valve is placed, said valve within the reservoir having a small way 6 in it passing from its side down its center to the pipe 0, leading to the tube or coil. By having a pipe 0 as aforesaid, connecting the gas-generating coil with the top of reservoir the flow of oil is assured by reason of the gaspressnre being upon it. At back of the hollow part of iron a hole is provided, through which to pass the said tubular coil 0 the said cup D fitting neatly in the hole and forming a cover for it.

C is a pipe provided with a screw cover or cap C by the removal of which the gas blows out or escapes.

The oil-reservoir O is held in position by a suitable pin-and-loop fastening F,which grips the back vertical bar of the handle, and such reservoir and coil are made secure to each other and in such a manner that they are separable froIn the box-iron, while a suitable capped supply-hole C is provided in the top of the oi1-reservoir.

The handle B is made in two parts-via, a central bar I) and the asbestos coating Z; I), the latter being asbestos fiber held in position by a wire-gauze covering and the former, b, a covering of sheet-asbestos. The wire-gauze is indicated by dotted .lines b between the layers 1) and I).

To use the iron, the reservoir is first filled with oil, preferably one half kerosene and the other half benzene, and the reservoir and coil being detached from the iron proper the said parts are laid in such a position that the cup D is horizontal, and in it methylated spirit is placed and ignited in order to heat the coil and so convert the oil in it into gas, and which gas as itissues from the end of the burner D is ignited. Then the coil and reservoir are placed at the positions shown in Fig. 1 in the iron, the issuing gas heating the coil as well as heating the iron, and the pipe 0 leading the gas-pressure to above the oil in reservoir in order to insure a constant supply of oil to the gas-generating tubes or coils.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

3. The improved smoothing-iron heated by gas generated from kerosene or other oil or I 5 spirit consisting essentially of the box A, tubular coil 0 burner D, cup D reservoir 0 and return-pipe C substantially as herein described and shown in the drawings.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 20 hand in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE POLL.

Witnesses:

BEDLINGTON BODYCOMB, GEO. E. BODYOOMB. 

